Electric motor for transmitting angular movements.



R. GIRARDELLI. ELECTRIC MOTOR FOE TRANSMITTING ANGULAR MOVEMENTS.

APPLIOATIDN FILED MAR. 7. 1912.

Patented July 29, 1913.

UNITED OFFICE.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, RrooAnno GIRARDELLI, a subject, of the King of I-taly,residing.at tome, in the Kingdom of Italy, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Electric Motors for Transmitting Angular Movements, of which the followg arge motors,

mg is a full, clear, and exact description.

With motors for the transmission of angular movements, and particularly with those which have to overcome considerable resistances in places far away from the operating station, two inconveniences mm nected consisting in the high cost of installation and operation owing to'the fact that a line must .be provided sufficient for the highest power to be developed by the motor, and the losses due to the resistance of the conductor are proportional to the current circula'tin in the latter, and in the variable degree 0 'accurateness which may be secured in the transmission when the same motor has to cause the movement of. parts requiring different power, for the final position of the movable portion of the motor difl'ers always from the position, which it would reach in running without load, by an angle which corresponds to the torquecapable of overcoming the final resistance of the driven part. The present invention is a device by means of which both the said inconveniences can be eliminated; according to the invention the line, which starts from the transmitting station, does not serve to feed the motors which actually move the driven devices, but it is designed to feed auxiliary moto rs,the action of which merely consists in regulating the position of a rotary switchacting on a local circuit which produces the successive displacements of the driving motor according to the p'os1t1ons taken up by the auxiliary motor, which may be one of the known motors employed for repeating angular. movement s. 3 It is ob ,vious that in this case the mam lme, which starts from the central transmitting station, has to carry only a very weak current suflicient for feeding the auxiliary motors which have to overcome only the resistance of the switch, and as this resistance is very slight, the building cost of the line is reduced to a low figure; moreover, the said resistance-being entirely independent of the value of-the' ower which has to be developed 'by the ferent devices, the residual errors of the acting directly upon the dif-v Speciflcation. of Letters Patent. Patented I lily 29, 1913. Application filed March 7,1912. Serial n; 002,222. I

transmitted angular values arelalways the I same. Each of. the local circuits as well as the power of each of the large motors ,is regulated separately according to the kind of work to be performed.

In the annexed drawing, which by way of example represents an embodiment of the of its shaft, and its connections with they transmitter. Figs. 2 and 3 are front views respectively of the commutator, the motor and the rheostat, the latter regulating the intensity of. the current in the local circuit which vfeeds the motor.-

{The motor, properly speaking, can be a direct current or also an alternating current motor, and in the drawing is shown a motor with bipolar field and a ring armaturev in which motor the field magnets 1- form the fixed portion or stator, and the armature +2- the movable portion or rotor. The winding of the rotor could also be a drum winding,-instead of a ;ring winding, and both the rotor and the statorcan be toothed or made with smooth surface. The current feeding this motor comes from a local source shaft 9 of the motor. To the collar 7- is fixed-the brush -10- leading the currentto the rotor. The current is led to the stator by the wire-1 1-- which starts also from the receiving terminal 4, and

the return takes place through the wire -12- ending at a flat metallic ring --1-3.' which has its center on the axis of theshaft '-'-9- and is fastened tothe inner surface -l6 provided upon one of the faces of the rotor- --2, and the return of-thecurrent of-'therotor is obtained by a second brush '17 distanced 1180' from-the first one and supported by afoot i -18 mounted upon The 'brush 10' slides against the segmental commutator the same insulatingsleev -8-'-' which carries the collar --'-7-- of the brush -1 The foot 18 carries a third brush 19- in metallic communication with the brush -1T- and which slides against the aforesaid metallic ring 13 so that the wire forms the common return path both from the rotor and the stator.

Although in the drawing the segmental connnutator is shown as applied to the rotor, it will nevertheless be understood that it could also be applied to the stator, and in this case the polar axis or the several polar axes of the rotor would have an invariable position with respect to the windings of it, while the stator ought to be formed by a drum winding or by a ring windingsimilar to that represented in the drawing for the rotor, and its poles would have a variable position. with respect to the position otthe windings corresponding to the position taken up by the brushes. This premised it will easily be understood how the revolution of this motor takes place; when the couple of brushes '-10-' 17 is in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2, that is to say when they are on the line of the poles of the field, the rotor stops eren if the current is circulating in it. But when the brushes are shifted through an angle a, taking up for instance the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, the rotor starts turning and turns until the brushes are again brought back in the initial position. The displacement of the brushes and their return to the position of rest are obtained by means of the device hereinafter described.

The sleeve 8 which is loose on the shaft -9'and carries the two receiving and return brushes -10 17, carries also a toothed wheel 20 which engages with a pinion -21- mounted on 1 the auxiliary shaft 22- which passes loose in a sleeve -Q3 through the rotor, and carries at the other end a pinion -24 which engages inside a toothed rim 25-. This toothed rim is mounted upon a sleeve --26'- which is also loose on the shaft 9 ;and carries the rotor -27 of an auxiliary motor, the stator 28- of which is fastened to the casing 5- of the main motor. The current 1s led to this auxiliary motor by the conductors 29" 29"- 29"' which are fixed to brushes sliding against three rings -.30 30" -30" which place them in communication with the windings of the rotor 27-, and by means. of three branches they reach the windings of the stator -28 As auxiliary motor maybe chosen any of the already known, motors employed for transmitting angular movements with the corresponding transmitting apparatus, and

in Fig. 1 of the drawing, by way of example and solely for the purpose of showing a complete plant is shown a transmitting apwhich form the continuation oi. the ends ofthe segment "32, from they groups ---3('--- 37, which form the continuation of the end of the segment 33. Each contact of the group -34-- connnunicates with a contact of the group 35 by means of a wire The resistances t1- put the segment 32 into communication with the first of the wires -40- and this with the other wires. The. wires 49 and the resistances 43 in a similar manner are disposed between the segment -33- and the contact groups 36- '37.

Against the segments 32- 33- and the four intermediate contact groups slide three brushes 45'- 45- ;l-?i-- which by means of the wires 29" ----'29 --29- send the current to the auxiliary motor, with which the rotor and the stator are in parallel, as shown in the drawing, but

also the series arrangement could be adopted. If the rotor-and the stator -27 28 have triphase windings, it is-clear that, when the cylinder 31 turns beneath the brushes 45 +457 -4c5-", the revolution of the rotor 27 is produced and the number of the positions of rest will depend upon the manner in which the winding has been arranged and upon the number of contacts contained in each of the groups '4- 35 3('3- -37.

The motor works as follows: Let us consider the effect produced by the passage ot the rotor -Q7- from oneposition to the subsequent one, starting from the position of rest, to which correspond Figs. 1, 2 and 3. Supposingthe ZTWOllttlOIl takes place clockwise when looking in the sense of the arrow ac. In this case, while the rim 25' toothed inside turns in the aforesaid sense,

in the same sense turns also the pinion 24' together with the auxiliary shaft -Q2- and On the contrary, the

the gearings 20 21- -24 -25 may be regulated so as to obtain for the brushes 10 17 of the commutator a deviation larger than the deviation of the rotor --2'7 and even, if necessary, of a whole quadrant, so that the rotor 2 at the beginning of the displacement is subjected to the action of the highest torque, that the large motor can develop, which 90, so that the rotor -2 begins its movethat the brush ment with the highest power of which it is capable, turning in the same direction in which the brushes should turn for returning into the initialposition. Now while the rotor 2 turns clockwise, looking in the direction of the arrow 01:, it carries along the shaft -Q2 and the pinion -2 l rolls upon the rim 25-, which remains stationary, turning the pinion counter-clockwise and causing at the same time to turn the pinion 2lprovided at the other end of the shaft, which pinion 2lhowever does not simply roll upon the wheel 20-, but it compels the latter to turn also in the direction of the rotor 2 that is to say clockwise, bringing the brushes l0 -17- back in the initial position, in which the torque vanishes and the motor stops, if no further displacements are imparted upon the auxiliary motor. In this initial position the brush 19- of the return of the current is in the position shown in Fig. 3, from which it appears that for the purpose of reducing the consumption of current during the stop of the motor, the ring 13 may be provided with a group of suitably disposed resistances -4(iwh ch diminish the current circulating in the rotor -2. But as soon as the brushes 1() 17 have been shifted by reason of the revolution of the wheel -20 and reached such a position 19 has taken the posigi0/tion indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3, that is to say as soon as the arch coi'nprislng the resistances has been passed, the current passes in its totality in the rotor -2, producing the highest torque, which then is diminishing gradually as the brushes, returning in the position of rest, switch in a larger number of resistances; and things could also be arranged in such a way that in the final position where no torque is present no current may pass through the rotor. It is obvious that, if the rotor of the auxiliary motor is continuously turning, the rotor of the main motor will also turn in a continuousmanner.

Having now fully described the nature of the said invention, I declare that What I claim is:

1. Device for transmitting angular movements comprising an electric transmitting and a receivmg apparatus, conductors connectmg the transmitting apparatus to the stator and the rotor of an auxiliary motor of the receiving apparatus, a shaft for the revoluble auxiliary motor, a brush holder, means connecting the rotor of the auxiliary motorto said brush holder, a main motor rotating upon said shaftfa commutator connected to the rotor of the main motor, brushes acting upon said commutator, and a local source of electricity for feeding current to said main motor, substantially as described.

29 In a device of the character described, in combination, an electric transmitting and a receiving apparatus, conductors connecting the said transmitting apparatus to an auxiliary motor of the receiving apparatus, a shaft for said revolving auxiliary motor, an inwardlyitoothed'rim secured to the rotor of, said auxiliary motor, looseon said shaft, a pinion meshing with said toothed rim, an auxiliary shaft passing freely through the' rotor of a main motor, to one end ,of which the pinion is secured, a pinion secured to the other end of said auxiliary shaft, a brush holder carrying a toothed wheel engaging said latter pinion, brushes sliding upon a commutator of the rotor of the main motor and a local source of electricity feeding current to said main motor, substantially, as described.

3. In a device of the character described, a main motor, a local source of electricity feeding said motor, a commutator secured to the rotor of said motor, brushes slidingly engagingsaid commutator, a brush connected wlthone of the latter brushes, a ring connected to the electric source upon which said brush is sliding, and resistances dis-- posed 'upon' this ring to both sldes of the sliding brush inits position of rest, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, in the city of Rome this 26th day of February RICCARDO GIRARDELLI. Witnesses:

LETTERN Lanooon'r'ra, ANTONINO LABOCCETTA. 

